Meton of Athens (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; gen.: Μέτωνος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th...
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Meton is a compound formation on the Moon that consists of several merged crater rings that have been flooded with lava, forming the remnant of a walled...
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Meton granulicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pascoe in 1859. It is known from Moluccas. Meton granulicollis...
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Meton digglesi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pascoe in 1862. It is known from Australia. BioLib.cz - Meton digglesi...
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Meton is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species: Meton digglesi Pascoe, 1862 Meton granulicollis Pascoe...
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Meton tropicus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pascoe in 1862. It is known from Australia. BioLib.cz - Meton tropicus...
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Rekoa meton, the Meton hairstreak is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Mexico to Brazil. "Rekoa Kaye, 1904" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera...
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years. This nineteen-year period was called by the Greeks as the ‘year of Meton', the time period in which the stars returned to their initial positions...
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than eight mean Julian years. The length of nineteen years in the cycle of Meton was 6,940 days, six hours longer than the mean Julian year. The mean Julian...
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("Ceará: Full Passion" Project). The team mascot appeared in late 1919, when Meton de Alencar Pinto, former president of Ceará SC, coached young players of...
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Cleostratus Democritus Euctemon Eudoxus Heraclides Hicetas Hippocrates of Chios Meton Oenopides Parmenides Philip of Opus Philolaus Apollonius Aratus Archimedes...
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called the Metonic cycle after Meton of Athens (432 BCE), the Babylonians used this cycle before Meton, and it may be that Meton learned of the cycle from...
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given the name Ayling. He stayed behind on Meton to be educated, while Elizabeth reluctantly came home. Meton's planetary vibrations supposedly affected...
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December 2007. "Watch! Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor starrer Jab We Meton Prime". Amazon Prime Video. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023...
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ysee.gr. Retrieved 24 Jan 2009. Christos Pandion Panopoulos, Panagiotis Meton Panagiotopoulos, Erymanthos Armyras, Mano Rathamanthys Madytinos (Editor...
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great astronomers of the past: Aratus, Hipparchus, Copernicus, Ptolemy, Meton, and most prominently, Tycho Brahe (beneath his standing figure, a map on...
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is just 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds longer than 19 tropical years. Meton of Athens, in the 5th century BC, judged the cycle to be a whole number...
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known to consist of 1⁄4 of 1461 days (rather than 1460 days) by the time of Meton in the 5th century BC. Rather than adopt a new system like the Egyptian...
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Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles Menelaus Meton Oenopides Philip of Opus Philolaus Posidonius Ptolemy Pytheas Seleucus Sosigenes...
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new moon after the summer solstice. It was introduced by the astronomer Meton in 432 BC. Reconstructed by Academy of Episteme. Old Persian calendar lunisolar(...
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official poet, an oracle-monger with prophecies for sale, a famous geometer, Meton, offering a set of town-plans, an imperial inspector from Athens with an...
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Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles Menelaus Meton Oenopides Philip of Opus Philolaus Posidonius Ptolemy Pytheas Seleucus Sosigenes...
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nineteen-year cycle, the Metonic cycle, was developed in Athens by the astronomers Meton and Euctemon (known to be active in 432 BC), could have been used to pattern...
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mathematical techniques accumulated over centuries by the Babylonians and by Meton of Athens (fifth century BC), Timocharis, Aristyllus, Aristarchus of Samos...
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its real significance. West to the Altar of Zeus are the foundations of Meton's heliotropion, the oldest known astronomical observatory, where he performed...
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Chios Macrobius Martianus Capella Menelaus of Alexandria (Menelaus theorem) Meton of Athens Parmenides Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Thales Theodosius of Bithynia...
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town in ancient Thrace, Greece Methoni, Pieria, the modern town nearby Meton of Athens, an ancient Greek astronomer. Metonic cycle, a 19 year cycle of...
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events. … Over half a millennium before the astronomer and mathematician Meton in 432 BC calculated the shifts in the lunisolar cycle, they were already...
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and banished those who were opposed to it. Prior to this, a Tarentine, Meton, pretended to be drunk to demonstrate the free and leisurely lifestyle of...
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Salmasius, Zoroaster, Palladius, and Aëtius. Solinus placed it on the 20th; Meton and the unemended text of Censorinus's book on the 21st; and Ptolemy on...
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